>>>>> "RossB" == Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu>
>>>>> on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:30 -0800 writes:
RossB> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:12 +0100, Martin Maechler
RossB> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:20, Ross Boylan
>> <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at
>> 09:54 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: >> RossB> ESS's
>> opening message and ess-version variable both >> RossB>
>> say 5.5.
>> >>
>> >> not good. > I think I've fixed that; ess-version and
>> the startup message both say
>> > 5.6.
>> >
>> > inferior-ess-help-command is a variable defined in
>> `ess-cust.el'. > Its value is > ".help.ESS(\"%s\",
>> help_type=\"text\")\n"
>> >
>> > However, ?nlm gets > Error: could not find function
>> ".help.ESS" > in the nlm help buffer.
>>
>> Hmm, .help.ESS should be defined via R-code that is sent
>> from ESS, (and depends on the R version in use). For R
>> >= 2.10.0, a line .help.ESS <- help
>> >
RossB> Could the fact that ESS gets a timeout waiting for
RossB> the R process to start be relevant? Ross
Maybe.
I just tried this on our Windows Server machine.
What I get
with the above
1) unpacking of ess-5.6.zip in
C:/program files/GNU Emacs/site-lisp/ess/
2) Deleting all *.elc files in there (!!)
3) Restarting Emacs
4) M-x R
is the following *R* buffer (indented by 1)
----------------------------------------------------------------
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> options(chmhelp = FALSE, help_type = "text")
> .help.ESS <- help
> options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe')
----------------------------------------------------------------
Note the last three lines of ESS-auto-generated R code.
Don't you get these?
Best regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich